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It's relatively easy to draw a congressional district where whites are the 4th largest racial group.  I'm curious how far this can go, though.  So, a challenge: Draw a relatively compact congressional district where three minority groups all have at least 28% of the population by CVAP.  Can you hit 29%?  30%???

Alternative: Draw a congressional district where whites are in 4th place, and they trail the racial group that's in 3rd place by at least 18%.  How large can one make this difference?  

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This may be possible if in the East Bay region if you connect Oakland with San Jose. I'll post any (likely horrendously grotesque looking) updates.

Something along I-880 and I-80 would probably work.

Probably can't be done for the Bay Area; there aren't enough plurality/majority black areas between Richmond and Oakland to get over 19% or so. But if anyone wants to prove me wrong, be my guest.

I managed to get a South Central LAX-Compton-Torrance-Long Beach-Cerritos-Westminster district that's 28.5% Black, 28.4% Asian, and 9.7% Non-Hispanic White. This version completely bypasses downtown LA, and it makes more sense to draw an Inglewood + Long Beach district than an Inglewood + Alhambra one.

It's hard not only because so much of LA County is majority/plurality Mexican, but also because the various Asian-heavy suburbs are far from each other and tend to have a lot of White and/or Latino residents. Long Beach having a lot of super-diverse precincts doesn't help when you're trying to draw a district that's <10% White haha.

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I have an Alhambra + Arcadia centered Chinese district (#11), with the (East) Asian-heavy area near the borders with Orange and San Bernardino Counties split among a Downey-Hacienda Heights district (#50), a Covina-Pomona-Chino Hills [SB] district (#48), and the alternate version of Young Kim's district that stretches down to Irvine [Orange] (#12) in my SoCal D gerrymander/“whites in 4th place district with 2020 data” map. I love how DRA has a racial dots feature now with both VAP and general population options.

https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::5b7683e4-3262-4942-8387-f5593908e421

Did a more "legit" version of my 2021 CA redistricting based on the above PG&D thread, but with no explicit intention to gerrymander outside of Orange County. I tried to align CD boundaries with county and municipal borders as much as possible. I also tried to center some of the Bay Area and SoCal districts around distinct Asian communities of a certain size (e.g. the ethnic Chinese of the San Gabriel Valley, NW Orange County's Little Saigon, the "PMC" and "Blue Collar" Asian cores of Santa Clara County)
https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::77d4af56-7dcd-4b85-9c0c-480412498c4b

Stennis and Cochran.

https://twitter.com/syylllia/status/1794855529753506121
https://twitter.com/lululitae/status/1794828582075900256
https://twitter.com/Portes_Thomas/status/1794835072895565936
https://twitter.com/rifain_nouvelle/status/1794818507089076591
https://twitter.com/stairwayto3dom/status/1794817769730388093
https://twitter.com/JonnyFX1/status/1794862444156006600
https://twitter.com/hamad_alnajjar/status/1794828909797912693

That JonnyUTD guy is a pretty rabidly anti-Semitic nutjob whose Twitter is filled with Hamas propaganda and conspiracy theories like his claim that Hamas’ campaign of rape and sexual violence against Israeli civilians on 10/7 was an Israeli hoax.  

To be clear, this doesn’t mitigate how bad what happened in Rafah just now was, but it’s also not a great look that you’re treating this guy like a remotely credible source.

Are you disputing the legitimacy of the videos that have been posted?

Did you read my post?  I literally made it clear I was not doing so. 

Chase Oliver wins with 61%.

https://twitter.com/syylllia/status/1794855529753506121
https://twitter.com/lululitae/status/1794828582075900256
https://twitter.com/Portes_Thomas/status/1794835072895565936
https://twitter.com/rifain_nouvelle/status/1794818507089076591
https://twitter.com/stairwayto3dom/status/1794817769730388093
https://twitter.com/JonnyFX1/status/1794862444156006600
https://twitter.com/hamad_alnajjar/status/1794828909797912693

That JonnyUTD guy is a pretty rabidly anti-Semitic nutjob whose Twitter is filled with Hamas propaganda and conspiracy theories like his claim that Hamas’ campaign of rape and sexual violence against Israeli civilians on 10/7 was an Israeli hoax.  

To be clear, this doesn’t mitigate how bad what happened in Rafah just now was, but it’s also not a great look that you’re treating this guy like a remotely credible source.

I don't care about who "JonnyUTD" is.

Are you disputing the legitimacy of the videos that have been posted?

Up next, bringing back fox hunting and death penalty.

How about bringing back the cane?

Perhaps burning suspected witches at the stake would get those voters back!

CHASE OLIVER HANDIDLY BEAT NOTA AND NEARLY TWO DOZEN WRITE INS!

I don´t get why people have always those idea of gay people.
Roy Cohn and Edgar Hoover were gay.
Come on, Caitlyn Jenner won an Olympic gold medal competing agaisnt cismales before transitioning.

[dick size]

What the hell is that racist rant going on in the background?

So now we know what they say when they think nobody is listening.

I couldn't make out what was being said, what was it?

They were talking about race and dick size lol

Man, the party really is trying to become Republican lite.

At least a W for Oliver would be a rejection of that trend. Hopefully a non-temporary one.

Anyway, McCurdle is eating pizza and surprised C-Span is still there.

Edit: Damn, she gave me a heart attack for a second when she said to hold on.

For Trump: An October surprise relating to the Israel-Hamas war, such as another major attack on the anniversary of October 7.